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Israel hacked traffic cameras to track Khamenei: Report

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Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. File Photo
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A news report from London-based Financial Times has revealed a long term plan hatched by Israel’s spy agencies that led to the targeted killing of Iran’s erstwhile supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and members of the top echelon of Iran's military.

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According to sources, Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and gaining access to mobile phone networks to monitor the movements of Khamenei and his security detail.

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Nearly all traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, with footage encrypted and transmitted to servers.

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The hack allowed the Israeli and American forces to pinpoint Khamenei's location leading to his elimination in a targeted strike. Meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu justified the strikes on Iran. He said, “Iran for 47 years has been chanting death to America. They bombed your embassies. They tried to assassinate Donald Trump, the President of the United States, twice. They murdered their own people, they massacred so many.

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